Dusan Volf, PhD
WORKING ADDRESS: Department of Animal Physiology, Division of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Rooseveltov trg 6, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: October 18, 1939, Trsce near Cabar, Croatia
EDUCATION:
undergraduate:1966, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Diploma in Experimental Biology
graduate: 1971, University of Zagreb, MSc in Experimental Biology & Medicine
1973, University of Zagreb, PhD in Biomedicine, Supervisor: Andrija Kastelan, MD, PhD
postdoctoral training: 1974 - 1977, Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate, Oncology Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Supervisors: George W. Santos, MD; Lyle L. Sensenbrenner, MD
APPOINTMENTS:
1978 - 1980, Assistant Professor, Department of Animal Physiology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb
1980 - 1985, Associate Professor, Department of Animal Physiology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb
1985 - today, Professor, Department of Animal Physioogy, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb
MEMBERSHIPS:
International Society for Experimental Hematology (1978 - 1979 Member of Editorial Board), Croatian Biological Society, Croatian Immunological Society, Croatian Society for Radiation Protection
SCIENTIFIC INTEREST:
Experimental hematology and immunology, construction and analysis of radiation chimeras, Lymphocyte ontogeny.
SELECTED PEER - REVIEWED ARTICLES:
Volf D., Kastelan A., Dolejskova - Hauptfeld V. (1976) The effect of thymectomy on the competitive potential of C57BL6 bone marrow graft. Exp. Hematol. 4: 201 - 208
Volf D., Sensenbrenner L. L., Santos G. W. (1976) Mitigation of graft - versus - host disease in mice with xenogeneic antithymocyte serum and complement. Exp. Hematol. 4: 354 - 364
Volf D., Kastelan A., Kondic - Mitin N. (1977) An experimental model for studying graft - versus - host activity. Period. Biol. 79: 3 - 9
Volf D. Sensenbrenner L. L., Sharkis S. J., Elfenbein G. J., Scher I. (1978) Induction of partial chimerism in nonirradiated B - lymphocyte deficient CBA / N mice. J. Exp. Med. 147: 940 - 945
Volf D., Hauptfeld V., Kastelan A. (1979) Evidence for partial defect in stem cell function induced in mice by neonatal thymectomy. Immunol. Lett. 1: 133 - 136
Volf D. (1980) Modification of the sorting out process in radiation chimeras by sublethal irradiation of "superior" C57Bl 6 bone marrow donors. Period. Biol. 82: 109 - 113
Vlahov A., Volf D. (1983) Synthesis and some biological properties of 2 - furanocarboxylic acid derivatives. Topics in Furan Chemistry (Proceedings of 4th Symposium of Furan Chemistry, Smolenice - Bratislava), J. Kovac, ed. 237 - 239
Volf D., Zenku E., Kosuta D., Tomljenovic M. (1983) B - lymphocyte population of the Peyers pathches and lymph nodes have separate ontogenic pathways: Evidence that two classes of organ - specific pre B - stem cells reside in the bone marrow and spleen of adult mice. Exp. Hematol. 11: 13 (Suppl. 14)
Volf D., Tomljenovic M., Skrelec V., Kosuta D. (1984) Organ - specific commitment of pre - B stem cells. Exp. Hematol. 12: 427
Volf D., Jurecic R. (1987) DAPI as fluorescent probe for cell viability assays. Trends Genet. 3: 341
Volf D., Jurecic R. (1989) Cell staining with DAPI. Trends Genet. 5: 292
Vlahov A., Volf D. (1989) Synthesis and effect of 2 - furancarboxylic acid derivatives on the lymphohematopoietic cellls. Acta Pharmacol. Yugosl. 39: 97 - 104
Vlahov A., Volf D., (1989) Synthesis of several 2 - furancarboxylic acid derivatives and immunostimulating properties of a sulfur - containing furane compound. Acta Pharmacol. Yugosl. 39: 289 - 296
Vlahov A., Volf D. (1989) Mass spectrometry in metabolic studies of furane compound. Proceedings of the 11th International Mass Spectrometry Conference, Bordeaux, 1988, Adv. Mass Spectro. 11B: 1516 - 1517
Jurecic R., Volf D (1989) Comparative analysis of CBA and CBA / N mice lymphoid bone marrow cultures. Leukemia Res. 13: 32 (Suppl. 1)
Jurecic R., Thompson E., Steel C. M., Volf D. (1991) Introduction and expression of c - Ha - ras oncogene in murine hematopoietic progenitors. Int. J. Cell. Cloning 9: 427
Volf D., Orsolic N., Jurecic R., Samija M. (1991) Studies on chimaerism in CBA / N mice: Differential susceptibility of Peyers patch and lymph node seeking pre - B stem cells to various antimitotic agents. Exp. Hematol. 19: 566
Jurecic R. Volf D. (1992) Maintenance of long - term repopulating cells in modified murine lymphoid long - term bone marrow cultures. Exp. Hematol. 20: 735
Volf D. (1994) Hypothesis that B - lymphocyte populations of Peyers patches and lymph nodes develop from two different organ - selectively commited lymphocytic stem cells. Period. Biol. 96: 258